On Episode 64, I sat down with Danny Foley head strength coach at Virginia High Performance to discuss how to better balance the development of athletes by bringing in different elements to training. Danny has spoken at great length on how to integrate fascia into training and in this conversation Danny shares many of the inventive ways to provide athletes and clients with a more well rounded approach. Danny starts out by sharing how the unique clientele that he works with on a regular basis was a catalyst for a shift in his mental model for how to effectively train individuals.
Many times individuals are very entrenched and only follow one line of logic. Danny shares that bringing fascia into the picture doesn't mean that you completely abandon more common methods individuals may be familiar with. A focus on fascia focuses on the quality of interconnected omnidirectional formats of movement. Whereas, methods that only take into account muscular develop focus on the isolation of different aspects of movement and rely heavily on progressive overload as the main driver of adaptation and growth. Throughout the conversation you'll hear how you can easily integrate a fascia based approach into warmups, auxiliary methods and more.
Danny discusses the importance of building athletes in a proximal to distal manner and how to bring this concept into auxiliary and core movement selections. One of the big positives that can be derived from bringing the methods shared in this episode is that they bringing a great level of variability into training. This variability can keep cognitive engagement and strain at a desired level and also work to build a more dynamic well prepared individual. There are many methods to vary training Danny shares how stance, tempo, load and more can be varied to more heavily bias fascia for training selections.
If you are familiar with fascia than you have probably encountered the term sling. Danny shares the slings of the body and discusses the main activities that each sling is involved with. He also shares how to assess each of these sling patterns and shares many of the common deficiencies that he has seen with sling patterning in the populations that he works with. For a more detailed write up head over to From the Ground Up.com and check out the weekly companion article that accompanies each episode.
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